The Democrat wants to double the credit for parents of children 4 and under. It would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street, the wealthy, corporations. Trump's tax plan would most benefit the wealthy.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/12/2016 12:01:21 PM
For decades, a majority of the Vietnamese-American electorate has leaned toward Republican. Now they're more likely to register as Independents with very complex opinions on national issues.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/12/2016 11:55:47 AM
Donald Trump talked about grabbing women's genitals. On Twitter, tens of thousands of women have told stories from the other side of sexual assault, sharing their stories with the hashtag #NotOkay.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/11/2016 10:30:34 PM
As she spoke to her biggest crowd of the entire campaign Monday night at The Ohio State University, Hillary Clinton presented the election as a moral choice.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/11/2016 7:13:23 PM
Theater Latte Da is keeping E.L. Doctorow's surprisingly relevant conversations about capitalism, police brutality, and immigration going with a staging of "Ragtime."
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/11/2016 6:16:27 PM
Even before the troubled Trump Taj Mahal casino opened in 1990, Marvin Roffman predicted it would flop. Donald Trump took offense and Roffman was fired. But the securities analyst had the last laugh.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/11/2016 4:37:57 PM
Forty Republican senators and congressmen have revoked their support for the Republican presidential nominee -- with nearly 30 of them calling on him to quit the race altogether in recent days.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/11/2016 12:00:09 PM
Investor Warren Buffett says he's never used the kind of tax deduction that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did, and Buffett says he's paid taxes every year for 72 years.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 8:38:15 PM
Blame the substance, the tape, the timing or the "tipping point," but the surge of Republican desertions happened because Trump's offense hit them where they live -- both personally and politically.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 5:13:49 PM
After audio surfaced of the GOP nominee bragging about groping and kissing women, dozens of Republicans have called on Trump to drop out - and it's all shaken up the electoral map.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 4:53:14 PM
Trying to turn the tables on his opponent, Donald Trump is pointing the finger at Bill Clinton and a former nurse who says Hillary Clinton enabled his alleged sexual assault.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 4:53:14 PM
While it could be said Donald Trump upped his game in Sunday's debate, he still did not reach the level at which the carefully prepared and rehearsed Hillary Clinton has functioned in both debates.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 4:15:19 PM
Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan said he won't defend Donald Trump now or in the future and will spend the next month defending his party's House majority.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 3:52:24 PM
The second presidential debate was a no-holds-barred affair. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did not shake hands at the outset -- and it quickly turned nasty.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 11:06:55 AM
Target, Best Buy, General Mills and Cargill signed on to the Obama Administration's American Business Act on Climate Pledge last year, but still gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to climate change deniers in Congress.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 9:02:40 AM
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump held the second of three debates Sunday night at Washington University in St. Louis. It was a town-hall style debate moderated by Martha Raddatz of ABC and CNN's Anderson Cooper.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 5:10:28 AM
Clinton said she wants justices who understand how the world "really works." She wants ones who will support the legality of abortion and same-sex marriage. She notes that several of the justices Trump has said he'd consider oppose those rights.
Trump says he wants a judge in the tradition of Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia's death this winter opened a vacancy on the court that still has not been filled. The Republican-controlled Senate has refused to consider President Obama's nominee to fill Scalia's seat.
--AP
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 2:54:07 AM
DONALD TRUMP: "I don't like Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS."
THE FACTS: Not true. Syria's President Bashar Assad considers the Islamic State group to be among numerous "terrorist" groups that threaten his government, but his military is not fighting them. It is focused on combatting Syrian opposition groups, some of which are supported by the United States. The fight against the Islamic State militants is being waged by a U.S.-led coalition, with help from Turkey, by training, advising and equipping Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters. While Moscow asserts that it is fighting the Islamic State extremists in Syria, the vast majority of its airstrikes have targeted opposition groups threatening the Assad government.
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Contributed by AP National Security Writer Robert Burns.
by Michael Olson, MPR Newsvia MPR News10/10/2016 2:47:09 AM
